Messing around last night I decided to check how long it would take to
download e-Smith 5.0.0 over a dial-up connection. Hum 8 hours. Set it up and
went to bead. Actual time was 13 Hours. Observed that down load speed
significantly drooped after 8:00 PM.
Which leads to the first question. Going North to South - Canada to US what
has been the group's experience as to which days of the week and which hours
in general give the quickest down loads.
Second going from East to West - Europe to Florida what is the collective
experience of the best times to download?
Given the choice of a site in the North East - Eastern Time Zone and one in
Europe all things being equal which would give the better speeds.
I know that each site is different and each down load is different. What I am
asking is your expectations given only the above facts about an unknown site.
After down loading and checking that md5sum gave the correct values I then
proceded to burn 3 CD without stopping. I figured I would make a couple of
spare for people who may want them.
Well from 3 burned CD I got 1 good CD. Somehow this reminds me of floppies
before they were factory formated. You could format a floppy on one machine
and read it perfectly on that machine but damn if you could read it on one or
two machines that worked perfectly. Different drives would not read other
drives formating.
Well anyway the one CD that my reader would read was a Sony. The 2 that it
failed to read were cheap ones a HiVal and a Compusa. This leads to Frank's
rule number 5 for burning CDs. Don't buy cheap CD; they may not work.
Oh in case you have forgotten Rule #4 contributed by one of the Sluggers was
turn off the Screen Saver the interupts have a nasty habit of interfering
with the burner software.
Thanks
Frank
> Frank's New Rules for burning CD.
>
> Don't laugh but each of these rules has been a major stumbling block in
> making the burner work.
>
> 1. Check the weather. Yes, get the weather report. Better yet since weather
> reports are notoriously unreliable go outside and see what the weather is
> like. If there is a chance of heavy thunderstorm activity forget
> downloading or burning CD. Yes. I know about UPSs but somehow that just
> doesn't eliminate line voltage serges.
>
> 2. Check the answer machine. Better yet turn the volume up full. If you
> hear it do strange things you know that has bee a voltage serge on the
> power grid sufficiently to wipe out any CD you were burning or ISO you were
> downloading.
>
> 3. If you have any older 650 MD 74 min disk use them for skeets at the gun
> range so that you won't waste them. If you really really must use then do
> not use them for programs.
>
> 4. When burning CD it is best if you fall asleep on the couch this way you
> will not disturb the keyboard, mouse, or create sufficient vibration to
> affect the burner.
>
> Now if I can just figure out how to make the installer install the program.
>
> Frank
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